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Topic: Scared2 (Read 2943 times)

Anyone, please help! I am so afraid to take an aids test. I have prayed to God, but my faith appears to be weak at this time...My question is that I have burning on the right side of my mouth between the edge of my lip and the hairline area. I do not appear to have any of the common other symptoms. Is it normal to have only one symptom and be hiv positive?Any comments would be helpful. Thanks and pray for me to get my faith back...

I don't know what your possible exposure was. You don't have to feel brave to take the test.

If you have had a risky incident such as unprotected intercourse then you need to get tested. It's as simple as that.

What you are reporting as a symptomatic concern is something that is not in anyway suggestive of HIV infection. But then you also need to know that neither the presence nor the absence of symptoms will ever tell you anything accurately about your HIV status. Onlly an HIV test can give you that answer and it should be taken at 13 weeks after the most recent risky incident.

Stop making this harder than it needs to be. If you're at 13 weeks get tested now.

While the symptom you report do not sound hiv related in any way, shape or form, symptoms or the lack of symptoms means nothing when it comes to hiv infection. The ONLY way to know your hiv status is through testing at the appropriate time, which is 12-13 weeks after an incident of unprotected anal or vaginal intercourse.

You do not say what makes you worry about hiv infection. We could help you better if you tell us what is worrying you and why.

Please read through the Welcome Thread and follow the Lessons links. Come back and talk to us again after you have done this.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Ms. Ann,I was just worried that I could have possibly had angular cheilitis.which is usually cuts or fissures at the corners of the mouth.Mine is only burning at the corners of my mouth.Some even say burning at the corners of the mouth could be angular cheilitis.I was afraid that my symptoms could get to that point...I read that it was common in people with hiv.I dont have any other symptoms at this time.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts